I've been toying with this recently and I'll add my updated decklist tonight but I added a zeraora gx, 2 baby zeraora UNB, and upped the raichu count to 3 & 3. I also made some other tweaks but cant remember if the top of my head.
Haven't played against a pidgeotto control deck yet but I feel like anything with alot of energy acceleration with the ability to attack right from turn 1 would be good options.
I'm in the same boat as you, just started playing pokemon competitively again a few months ago. My suggestion would be pick up something cheap like a Distilled Blast Gyarados deck and move into something like Pikarom or Green's Reshizard. All 3 decks are fairly straight forward and alot of fun...
One budget deck that I think consistently gets no love but I think is one of the best has to be Distilled Blast Gyarados. Its biggest knock is its lack of consistency but with the proper techs/supporters/items and Keldeo GX it's pretty potent.
My bad, I've been on vacation the past week so I havent been able to test it at all but I'm going to run it a little at my local league tonight. Where are you at with your current build?
Still following it, I just built the deck myself using your first decklist. I'm going to playtest it a little bit at my league a few times and share the results. Are there any other pokemon better than honedge for the sacrificial lamb role? I was thinking about running some giant bombs w/ the...